Originally Posted by
Mattio
You missed one big Con with the TA reserve:
If you bid for Long Call and can't hold it, you will end up with a Short Call schedule, or vice versa. (You can't bounce back to bidding a line once you bid reserve. From the ALPA Scheduling video.)
I don’t have much experience with this.... let me see if I understand. Under the TA if you bid LC RSV, but can’t hold it, you get kicked to SCL. But you’d prefer if you can’t hold LC, you’d rather have a bid below LC that would then bid a line and not kick you to SCL? So we’re not going to be able to bid a LC-LINE-SCL type hierarchy? That does kinda suck, I didn’t realize that.
I would think most people who want a line will bid it first, but I could see this being a problem in certain instances.
We had LC at my regional, it was the same assignment logic, and I hated it, those guys worked alll the time. Now commuting out of base, LC could be a much better option.
Thanks for pointing that out; I wonder if it was done on purpose, or an oversight.
Tex